dead German women and children

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Close up picture of 2 women and 3 children killed by the soviets during the capture of Metgethen in 1945, in february 1945 it was recaptured by the Germans who found that civilians have been subjected to numerous atrocities

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Paul M (Wed 29 Jun 2011 05:48:11 PM EDT)

I'm guessing that both women were gang raped before being killed. Probably after they watched their children being killed.

Strasser (Fri 26 Feb 2010 08:18:49 PM EST)

It was not uncommon for Russian men to mistreat women...even in their own homes.

Soviet altrocity.Talking about any kind of liberation here is totally beside the point.I love an adult woman who is older than me and seing such photo I am appalled.I can't stand the view of dead women,raped women and tortured women.
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Soviet altrocity.Talking about any kind of liberation here is totally beside the point.I love an adult woman who is older than me and seing such photo I am appalled.I can't stand the view of dead women,raped women and tortured women.
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Hurting women is the most terrible thing-I am really appalled.
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The Soviets killed them.They were raping German women en mass.The number of 2 000 000 women raped is really true.I had a sad occasion to hear how German old woman was talking about.....about how the Soviets "liberated" them-unfortuanetly,she was raped many times by the Soviet soldiers.I can't stand when women are persecuted.I am 19 but love an adult woman older than me and....I can't look at this picture.
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The guys who persecuted those women is Germany in 1945 were <b>inhuman</b>

Patridas (Thu 25 Feb 2010 03:48:32 AM EST)

Wrong doing is wrong doing.
No one can justify any killing whatsoever.

303acidstorm (Mon 26 Oct 2009 01:27:12 PM EDT)

women and children don't deserve such act by men... very sad to see...

Again, it's not about weighing evil against evil. It's about admitting and dealing with the past. We are aware of our people's crimes and Germany pretty much succeeded in admitting and dealing during the past app. 65 years, other nations did not or saw ...

Again, it's not about weighing evil against evil. It's about admitting and dealing with the past. We are aware of our people's crimes and Germany pretty much succeeded in admitting and dealing during the past app. 65 years, other nations did not or saw no need to do so. Remember, it took the Soviet Union until 1990 to take full responsibility for Katyn. People like Lev Kopelev or Aleksandr Isaevic Solzenicyn who pointed out the misdoings of the Red Army in the German eastern regions found themselves thrown in the Gulag.

flamethrowerguy? I do not want to say that the ripping is good for revenge? but as I see you not understood clear - since the Volga, Kaukasus the soldiers coming to Germany through the burning villages, destroed cities, looked to the graves of his...

flamethrowerguy? I do not want to say that the ripping is good for revenge? but as I see you not understood clear - since the Volga, Kaukasus the soldiers coming to Germany through the burning villages, destroed cities, looked to the graves of his relatives. Finaly you are in Germany, what you will do? I am really have no info about punished German soldiers because the ripping of russian women, because of the burning villages together whis the peoples but it was the large numder of punished soviet soldiers because of this. Test the difference! In Belorissia were killed 1/5 of citisens! it were the areas totaly wihtout the peoples at the end of the war. USSR not need to calculate the quantity of reaping women, for what purpose it should be done? After the camps of thr death like Aushvitse? Treblinka?

No one is denying German atrocities/war crimes here. You're acting like your country never committed any. What are you people trying to tell us here? That the Metgethen or Nemmersdorf (or I could mention dozens of other east German towns) victims were...

No one is denying German atrocities/war crimes here. You're acting like your country never committed any. What are you people trying to tell us here? That the Metgethen or Nemmersdorf (or I could mention dozens of other east German towns) victims were killed by disguised Nazi thugs? That 2000000 German women were raped by the SS or e.g. 50000 women in Budapest/Hungary were raped by their fellow countrymen for propaganda purposes? Wake up, pal. P.S. you're writing about Soviet women as slave labourers in Germany. I just finished a report about this topic, guess what Soviet soldiers did to thousands of them just to "celebrate" their liberation...

During the war USSR lost 16 million civilian. Soviet wimen worked for German like a slaves, and what are you waiting for? I agree with NieWiederKrieg, it were the special orders to punish soldiers raping/killing the civilian. Some civilian were killed...

During the war USSR lost 16 million civilian. Soviet wimen worked for German like a slaves, and what are you waiting for? I agree with NieWiederKrieg, it were the special orders to punish soldiers raping/killing the civilian. Some civilian were killed anywere, but not 16 millions.
Futhermore? I think this is propaganda photo. To make defence of the Raih strongest.

flamethrowerguy (Mon 07 Sep 2009 09:10:00 PM EDT)

Serious international historians and researchers estimate the number of raped women (in Germany only) with about 2 million. I can't remember reading about a similar number of executed soldiers of the Red Army.

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